The Mechanical Turk Diaries

Voices of Amazon's Anonymous Workforce Mechanical Turk


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I was reading my brother in laws blog

I am a college graduate but need more education and training in order to achieve my professional goals. I work two jobs because I like the flexible hours but the pay is not very good. One day I was reading my brother in laws blog and in amongst stories about my nieces and random junk you can find on Ebay and Craigslist he had a posting about Human Intelligence Tasks. I thought it sounded interesting so I checked it out and signed up that day. It became apparent that I am not going to get rich quick or be able to support myself on hits alone but it is nice for extra money. I have decided I am going to buy myself a Malibu Pilates Chair with my extra money, the chairs cost around one hundred dollars on ebay and I currently have twenty from doings hits so it might be a while. I told my little sister about it also so she signed up. When we find a “good” hit we call and tell each other about it. We define good as pays an ok amount but doesn’t take very long to do. Sadly by the time we call each other these hits are usually gone because other people see them first. My other sister said it isn’t worth it but I think that they tend to take as much effort as taking a quiz on Facebook, which is hat I would be doing if I wasn’t doing these, but I don’t get paid for Facebook quizzes

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